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Showing posts from September, 2021

Lake Como

The Villa del Balbianello was built for a Cardinal Angelo Maria Durini in the 18th century and now they rent out the villa. Three famous movies were filmed here.    Casino Royal - James Bond recovery scene    A Month by the Lake - with Vanessa Redgrave and Uma Thurman    Star Wars Two - w…

Como, Italy

Rain rain go away. Stormed in the morning.   We are in Italy 🇮🇹. !!!  Beautiful small streets the Roman's designed . Tam in front of a church.  Every Italian speaks English with an A at the end of every sentence-a.  Cars are not allowed in the wal…

Travel to Lake Como Italy stopping in Bellinzona Switzerland.

Stopped at a gas station and this was in the back.  The walk turned into  Tunnel and this was the view. Still at the bathroom break. Stopped for quick break.   Castlegrande - Medieval castle dating back to the 13th century. Anyone passing ha…

Basal Switzerland

Mechanical Foundation  in the middle of Basal.   We started in Amsterdam and the river cruise ended in Basel. We are now off to Lake Como Italy. From river to lake life is an easy move.  I am sitting on the top of our river cruise ship with only the cre…

Strasbourg France

Hotel, restaurant and hotel on the right. Watch tower that is now part of a school. Canals built by Nepolian   Tam and our tour guide. Bob and Tam. Built as a Catholic Church but, became a Protestant church.  …

Ludwigshafen Germany

Ludwigshafen is a large industrial city.. During WWII, thirteen thousand Allied bombers hit the city in 121 separate raids during the war, of which 56 succeeded in hitting the IG Farben plant. Those 56 raids dropped 53,000 bombs each containing 250 to 4,000 pounds of high explosives, plu…